Disclosure Day Review (No Spoilers) & Scorsese AI Rant

This week on FoF we are reviewing Disclosure Day, the new blockbuster movie from Steven Spielberg about government extra-terrestrial cover ups. We discuss comparisons to his own movies Close Encounters and War of the Worlds (and…Crystal Skull), as well as Arrival from Denis Villeneuve. I go through what works, what doesn’t work, and whether Spielberg did enough Spielberging to make this worth a trip to the cinema.
This review is SPOILER FREE, meaning anything that is shown in the trailer is fair game.
We also find time to have a good impassioned rant about Scorsese joining forces with an AI company.

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TIMESTAMPS
(00:00) Intro, No Spoilers etc
(01:13) My Stance on Spielberg (Recent Work, Sci-Fi)
(03:03) My Stance on Aliens
(04:25) My Review Anxieties
(07:16) The Review starts, Approach to Aliens vs Arrival & Close Encounters
(12:44) Failure to Explore Themes
(14:08) Road Movie, comparison to War of the Worlds
(15:26) Performances
(17:49) Spielberg knows what he’s doing
(20:36) General Story Logic
(22:07) General thoughts, anxieties and confusion
(23:55) Summary, Letterboxd Rating (boxd.it/eIQZ4P) & FoF Disclaimer boxd.it/eIQZ4P
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(25:42) Scorsese Joins AI Storyboarding Company
(37:05) NEXT WEEK!